Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Criticism of Some Deterministic Systems in Their Relation to Practical Problems: A Dissertation
Many signs can be adduced which are indubitable proofs of this condition. Just as an individual cannot think and work at the same time, so a nation cannot construct railroads, develop mines, build factories and cultivate the soil and at the same time produce poetry, art, and music. To the student of history it is not strange that America, in her brief childhood days, has produced no immortal art. And if the fine arts thus far have not found congenial soil in American civilization.
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